News Releases 2000-2001

September 5, 2000 to August 24, 2001

Below is a chronological log of news releases written and distributed by the Office of Media & Community Relations. For more info, please contact Bob Caswell or Susan Swain at Media Relations via e-mail or phone, 780-4200.

August 24, 2001

New Dean Leads USM Muskie School of Public Service
Exploring World Religions in Maine
Annual Fall College Fair at USM

August 2, 2001

USM Student Takes Schoolhouse Arts to New Heights

July 17, 2001

USM Associate Provost
New offering at USM: Master of Science in Biology

July 10, 2001

Language and Culture Day Camps
USM Helping Young People Improve Reading/Writing

July 6, 2001

Exhibit on Back Cove Opens

July 5, 2001

New Program Helps Workers Pursue College Degrees

June 28, 2001

Muskie School Launches National Program to Enhance Community Efforts for Vulnerable Older Adults

June 25, 2001

University of Southern Maine Holds Student Recognition Day
Siblings in Foster Care Get Help from USM's Muskie School
“ACCESSEarth” Trains Earth Science Teachers, Students with Disabilities

June 15, 2001

USM Lifeline Programs Recognized by Governor

June 12, 2001

Researcher Wins Fellowship to Study in New Zealand
USM Athletic Trainer Heads to Olympic Training Center
USM Professor is Consultant on Upcoming A&E “Heroes of Iwo Jima” Show

June 11, 2001

USM Summer Psych Institutes
New State Director Appointed Maine Small Business Development Centers

May 25, 2001

$1 Million L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Chair Established at USM

May 21, 2001

Public Speak Out Against Poverty
USM Enrollments Heading Up

May 18, 2001

Information: Privacy, Property & Policy

May 15, 2001

25 Years of Helping the Disadvantaged

May 14, 2001

Workplace Development Helps Local Businesses
Solutions for Youth Violence

May 4, 2001

Road Maps: The American Way

May 3, 2001

USM Commencement 2001: Record Number Graduating

April 30, 2001

ESL Scholarship Established To Help Immigrants/Refugees
Sleep Expert @ USM

April 27, 2001

USM Names VP for Advancement

April 24, 2001

Looking Back at the Jay Paper Strike

April 20, 2001

Policy Forum on Public School Choice

April 19, 2001

Lecture on Political Money and Reform

April 13, 2001

“CHANGING COMMUNICATION” Conference in Portland
The Media and Violence Against Women

April 5, 2001

USM Lecture about Dynamics of Prejudice
Earth Day at USM

April 4, 2001

Literature and Politics in the New South Africa

April 3, 2001

Women and War in Yugoslavia
Major Gift to USM’s Senior College, Renamed Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

March 30, 2001

Lecture on Maine Fossils

March 20, 2001

Panel Talk on Immigrant Community/Latino Dance

March 16, 2001

USM Students To Spend Spring Break Building Houses

March 13, 2001

Women on the Appalachian Trail

March 8, 2001

USM Panel & Exhibit Explore Teen Violence

March 5, 2001

“Hope and Solutions” for Youth Violence

March 2, 2001

Lecture on Racial/ethnic Identity

February 21, 2001

Rita Heimes Logan Joins University of Maine School of Law

February 21, 2001

USM’S Lewiston-Auburn College One of five Selected for Program with American Occupational Therapy Foundation

February 20, 2001

Department of Energy regional high school “Science Bowl” at USM March 3
Julia Butterfly Hill to Speak at USM

February 16, 2001

Two Lectures on Greece

February 13, 2001

USM School Plans for Expansion/Changes Name

January 30, 2001

USM Hosts Neighborhood Meeting
“Road Maps: The American Way” Opens at Osher Map Library

January 29, 2001

SMTC-USM Transfers Made Easier

January 10, 2001

Economic Forecast for Maine, 2001
Caricatures of Blacks Questioned through USM Exhibit

January 9, 2001

Literacy Education Workshop

December 29, 2000

Grant Funding Hits All-Time High at USM

December 27, 2000

Amero Named to Muskie Fellowship

December 19, 2000

Post-cancer, ME Student Will Head to DC

December 11, 2000

USM Prof gets Fulbright to Australia

December 8, 2000

USM President Appointed Director of AASCU

December 4, 2000

Osher Map Associates Elect Directors, Honor Founders

December 1, 2000

Assessing the Quality of New England’s Child Care Workforce

November 30, 2000

WMPG Airs Health Messages for Immigrant Communities

November 29, 2000

Senior College Lecture on Maine’s Future

November 28, 2000

USM Prof to Talk on Off-setting Fertilizer Damage

November 8, 2000

Senior College Receives National Award

November 7, 2000

USM Professor Awarded Grant to Study Drug Courts
R&D Takes Shape in USM Engineering
Law School Lecture on Human Rights

November 6, 2000

Lightfoot Appointed New Director of USM’s Senior College

October 26, 2000

USM ‘00 Enrollment Largest in State

October 18, 2000

Multicultural Conference at USM
Male Nurses

October 11, 2000

A Conversation with Maine’s Governors

October 10, 2000

Bilingual Franco-American Web Site To Be Unveiled

September 29, 2000

USM to Host Fall Open House on Gorham Campus

September 27, 2000

Master’s Degree in Accounting
LeMieux Group joins USM’s Business Institute

September 19, 2000

Hate Crimes Expert @ USM

September 18, 2000

Education Reform Leader Goodlad in So. Portland

September 13, 2000

National Network for Educational Renewal

September 5, 2000

USM to Host a Seminar Series on Maine’s Forests
USM Executive Forum on “e-commerce”

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